Innovation and sustainable development have been considered fundamental elements in the competitive positioning of companies. The synergies between both concepts, known as eco–innovation, must be considered when designing company policies. The aim of this paper is to analyse which moderating factors determine how innovative companies perform when implementing a sustainable proactive approach. We analysed a representative sample of Spanish companies using a quantitative method based on data collected from the PITEC database. The empirical results show that company and market size, formal innovative activity (reflected by registered numbers of patents) as well as total expenditure on technology acquisition influence the eco–innovative orientation of firms.

The purpose of this article is to prioritize the different types of innovation and influencing factors affecting innovations of small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Iran, using multiple criteria framework. Analytical Network Process (ANP) has...

According to Porter, the five forces, rivals, customers, suppliers, potential entrants, and substitute products, shape not only the industry competition but also co–operation. Cluster formation is impeded by low local education and skill levels,...

This paper explores the question: What are the main objectivities and principles of Eco–citiesand what are the aspects which leads many cases to failure or success, regarding to the worldwidearchitectural and urban design developments and impacts on...

Development of scientific, technological and innovation potential of enterprises plays an important role in the economic development of the country. The main problem of innovation activities of enterprises of Kazakhstan is generally low demand for...

As one way to approach industrial symbiosis, environmental infrastructure sharing is principally concerned with providing an integrated environmental utility system for clustered firms. It is based on the assumption that environmental infrastructure...

Despite several authors having studied the strategic approach to environmental orientation and, considering that environmental proactivity is emerging in business strategy, it still remains unclear which real actions influence a firm’s environmental orientation. An empirical analysis of a sample of 126 Spanish companies shows that firms’ actions are explained as training, information and divulgation actions; firms’ goals are understood as actions to improve business competitiveness, and agents’ implications and firms’ management implications explain the environmental proactivity of firms, while obstacles with negative effects are also identified. This paper undertakes a questionnaire–based study of environmental proactivity to explain the relations among variables through a Structural Equation Modeling (EQS) model.